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Tenure

noun

The term during which some position is held. Synonyms: incumbency, term of office.

The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands. Synonym: land tenure.

verb

Give life-time employment to.

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... privileges. The lease dates from March 6th, 1898. England was to give Wei-haiwei back to China should Russia retire or be driven from Port Arthur, but has not done so. In all probability Germany, as well as Great Britain, is located on the Yellow Sea under a tenure that will be found ...

— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield

... make preparations for his departure from the city. His privateering ventures had been cleared up, but with profits barely sufficient to meet his debts. Mount Pleasant, his sole possession, had already been settled on his wife. His tenure of office had been ended some time before, and whatever documents were destined for preservation had been put in order pending the ...

— The Loyalist - A Story of the American Revolution • James Francis Barrett

... curtesy were abolished March 9, 1875. If either husband or wife die without a will, the survivor, if there is issue living, is entitled to the homestead for life and one-third of the rest of the real estate in fee-simple, or by such inferior tenure as the deceased was possessed of, but subject to its just proportion of the debts. If there are no descendants, the entire real estate goes absolutely to the survivor. The personal property follows the same rules. If ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... must, set down to me Love that was life, life that was love; A tenure of breath at your lips' decree, A passion to stand as your thoughts approve, A rapture to fall where ...

— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson

... tax. Its adoption by the New York workingmen was little more than a stratagem, for their intention was to forestall any attempts by employers to lengthen the working day to eleven hours by raising the question of "the nature of the tenure by which all men hold title to their property." Apparently the stratagem worked, for the employers immediately dropped the eleven-hour issue. But, although the workingmen quickly thereafter repudiated agrarianism, ...

— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman

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